SPRING
IS
HERE, BUILD A Garden For FREE! It's TIME
to dig up the yard. I mean lose the
lawn. Maybe keep a little patch in
the middle, but the edges? BANISH GRASS! Take the lawn out
as if you were
cutting brownies out of a pan, divot by divot. Turn the
divots upside down,
over in a shady corner where they will rot down into
rich soil over
next six months. Stack the divots upside down, in an area
you will call
'your COMPOST pile area'. Add all the autumn leaves you
can find. Throw
in a few bags of manure, wet it daily until it turns to
rich, black soil.
I keep a pile in corner of back yard, and the biggest pile
is in front
yard, along the driveway strip, next to neighbor's hedge..

NOW, quit the health
club. Get your
money back, and use it to buy soil amendments 'cuz we
are going to FIX
THOSE GRASS-FREE AREAS around the edges of your back
lawn. Right? YOU HAVE
this LAWN-less zone now, on the edges of your back
yard.. Add amendments
to the soil, gypsum, manure, peat, sand. Fork it around
and edge the bed
with wood found in alleys. Or Bricks. Or stones from the
mountains. So
that the bed is raised higher than the path. Get bags of
gravel used in
FLOOD TIME to prevent water entering bldg. Slash 'em and
let gravel cover
all paths.

Before you started,
you should have
planted flats full of seeds out of packets. By the time
the beds are all
amended, your little plants will be a few inches high,
(in your black,
plastic flats where you start them, always starting them
from seed packages.)
and you plant them in the raised beds.

RE: COMPOST.
I find people
bagging their leaves year round, and I brake at trash
piles, pick them
up. They are partially rotten from being in the bag.
GOOD! Brown bag your
own leaves, hide them on the property And open them up a
year later, use
that as compost. I have no problems using other peopleís
leaves. Rarely
do I find a coke can in there, and If I do, I take it to
the recycler,
get my money. I recycle cans all year long! Then chicken
manure, available
at every egg farm, composted with your leaves. You get
fabulous soil for
nothing.

If you think you're
having difficulty
getting beds to look as "lush" as the pictures in the
gardening books donít
worry. TIME will confer that polished look as the plants
grow sidewise.
NEVER plant perennials close together as they will grow
huge and youíll
have a HEDGE instead of a bed.

PLAN your garden in
your mindís eye.
Imagine the finished yard. See how when you lay plants
out, you automatically
put those tall growing plants in the back? The butterfly
bush, the calla
lillies? You can trust your Ďfrom the hipí impulses.
Alyssum goes in front
as it's always flat. The free catalogues show the plant,
and describe its
'height' and 'habit.'

The question is,
where do you get
a calla and a butterfly bush? Not from the catalog where
they ask $2.50
for each package of seeds. NO, you get them from
friends. Calla lillies
multiply anually if you want the corm but on TOP the
blooms turn into seeds.
Any pal with a calla lilly will give you as many seeds,
bulbs or roots
as you can haul off. And the latter? Butterfly bush?
Clip off a branch
or two from a pal's plant, stick in the ground, in the
shade with a glass
jar over it, & you will have it! Clone any plant you
want with cuttings.
Do this times l00 and you have, for free, any plant that
ever existed.
Cuttings require dappled sunlight, partial shade is all,
and moisture.
To make your own rooting solution, bend and break a lot
of willow twigs
in water, let stand overnight. A soak in that liquid
will cause rooting!

Last, the
supermarket will give you
potatoes, tomatoes, carrot tops (they may not make a
carrot below but the
resulting plant gets tall and lacy and will make seeds.)
Passion fruit,
papaya seeds, pineapple tops, cilantro or coriander
seed, nuts, beans.
The citrus and avocado trees, from seeds inside what you
buy to eat.

To inspire you to
get started, let
me tell you what you will have in a few months, what
you'll attract in
making your garden. A bee hive in an old tree, and the
automatic pollenization
of every fruit tree. I love those bees. One settled on
my PC keyboard.
I put a piece of paper near him, said, climb on. He did.
I carried him
to back door. He got NEAR it and took off in flight,
into yard. That tree
there is his home. His pals have a big ole hive inside
the tree trunk.
SMART FELLOW. Wonder if they'd let me have some honey?

You will attract
Butterflies, and
build birdhouses, youíll find old picket fences, that
people throw away
and create cunning little fenced off areas here and
there. Paint them a
fresh white. Visit Architectural
remnant
shops for Garden feature art. Youíll create
tall cutting
flowers, bouquets in every room, fragrance from sweet
peas and hyacinths
and lilacs. You'll create bird baths & water
fountains, goldfish pond,
vegetables, herbs, wildflowers, stones & stone
walls. Youíll find crazy
old architectural elements, and find ways to hang them
on the garage wall
above the flowers. Youíll create bird feeders, hanging
baskets. Youíll
find moss, and learn to make it grow in the shade under
camellias and on
old, moist terra cotta pots. (Blender and buttermilk is
the way.) Youíll
create secret paths, arbors, ivy, wattle fences, (built
of twigs and branches)
Youíll have fuchsias dripping out of pots on your sun
porch, hummingbirds,
roses, trellises, garden benches, hammocks and porch
swings, ferns, wildlife,
and your very own pet chicken wandering thru it all
daily and then coming
into the house to lay you a bright blue egg! Behind the
computer like my
little red hen, Puck Puck does. She's an only child but
she makes eggs!

Now letís take a
look at the elements
Iíve mentioned above & think of how you can create a
garden filled
with the things you love without paying a kingís ransom.
Here are the goodies
you are going to get for free.

Birds & other
creatures come to
live in your garden because they now have a food &
water source.

Water isnít costly.
A dollar a day for
8,000 square feet of house and garden is what it
takes.

Flowers &
vegetables - $.25 per
pack at those 99C stores. And people like me will mail
you any amt for
free, just send stamps. We have dishes overflowing
with seeds from our
own yards. Indigo morninglories, squash, beets, hopi
blue corn, broccoli,
tomatoes, tomatillos. Calla lillies.

Ferns, moss, other
greens & wildflowers,
find them in the woods, along roadsides and at
friendsí homes - FREE

Birdhouses, fences,
garden benches,
planters, swings. Scrap wood is found in every alley.
Any little boy with
a hammer, saw and some nails can build a birdhouse.
Birds aren't fussy.
Pallet wood is - FREE

TONS OF COMPOST free. I brake for
leaf bags. Everyone puts their leaves out on the street,
bags of them.
Today I braked for a few, could only fit four in my
Honda hatchback. Just throw
them down anywhere, toss some soil on top, wet daily
with hose. AMAZINGLY
GOOD soil comes from that. My neighbors put their trash
out at night in
big, green barrels. I wheel them to my heap, which is
along front driveway,
entire length of driveway, and dump, and return them to
the neighborís
gate. No longer on street. Rich, black soil. FREE.

Architectural elements - wood
or metal
decorations that once adorned an old home (find in the
trash, from a home
that is being remodeled, scrap yard, ask a contractor
who does remodeling)
- almost FREE

Hanging baskets - anything
that you
can plant flowers in & hang! Could be an old
basket, bucket, wooden
box, plastic or metal bowl, burlap or heavy cloth.
Just fill with a light
soil mixture & plant. - very cheap! FREE

Stones - Some
people will pay you to
take them off their property! You could build a garden
fence or cottage
out of them, if you get enough. FREE

FERTILIZER- Go to
the healthfood store,
find the address/ email of a chicken man on the box of
cage free eggs,
call him, get your buckets into the car, drive over.
1$ a bucket of smelly
rich, fowl stuff, instantly compost it with soil,
grass, leaves, burying
it as deep as you can. Almost FREE.

While you can sow packets of annual
and perennial seeds in different places around the yard
don't. If you have
snails, slugs, sowbugs, donít do it. They get eaten, like
bug salad! Use
flats from the nursery, grow on a raised table that snails
can't climb.
Set them out when big and strong, un-munchable.

When the plants
bloom & toughen,
replant them in their new homes within a flower bed of
your choosing. This
saves 100s of $$, because perennial plants can run
anywhere from $4 - $30
each! With a packet of seeds, you might get 100 - 200
plants for $0.10!
With this example, you also see how someone could earn a
good amount of
extra money by planting some extra packs of seeds!

Around the country
spring is in the
air! Thereís no garden like a free garden and that means
cancel the costly
health club. Digging and troweling is how youíre going
to raise your heart
rate! Secrets of an old digger. USE GARDEN GLOVES. Save
old flat pillows
so you can kneel on any surface without injuring knees.
Knees are very
touchy. Get a pointed shovel for digging plots.

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